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Impress Our Friends . . .

You're smart enough to grant your man the occasional guys' night out, right? Good. Boxing out a man's friends is a relationship deal breaker, according to 83 percent of the men we surveyed.

But make the most of that long leash you've granted him. Look at his best available pals as fix-up material for your solo friends. And if he's planning a pub crawl, meet his crew at the bar, buy the first round, then peel off so they can spend time together: "You have a blast with the boys, hon. I'm going to head home and relax." He'll keep you in mind all night long, and later on his buds will gripe less when you're on a date during the NBA playoffs (if it's game two, in an early round).

"It's important for her to relate to his friends," says Dr. Goldberg, "not just tolerate them."

"You don't have to love your boyfriend's friends," adds Joshua Piven, coauthor of The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Dating and Sex, "but you do need to respect their relationship with him."